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We carry out scenario analysis and research to examine and understand how potential changes to supply and demand will impact the future of fossil fuel-exposed companies and projects. This analysis helps the investment community better understand the financial implications of tackling climate change

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Asset Retirement Obligation Report 20 May 2025

Closing the Oil Well Transfer Loophole

The Impact of California's Orphan Well Prevention Act on the transfer of oil well cleanup liabilities California’s Assembly Bill No....

Asset Retirement Obligation Report 06 September 2024

Backfire: Why Colorado’s bonding reform is not working

Carbon Tracker has been following the development of the Energy and Carbon Management Commission’s (ECMC) financial assurance rules...

Asset Retirement Obligation Report 27 June 2024

Rocky Mountain Highs and Lows

Decommissioning Colorado’s Two Oil Industries In 2018, Colorado became one of the first US states to recognize the insufficient...

Colorado bonding rules do not hold companies accountable for abandoned oil and gas wells.

Asset Retirement Obligation Report 16 February 2024

False Start: How Colorado’s bonding rules failed to increase coverage

In March of 2022, the ECMC announced Colorado’s new financial assurance rules with much fanfare, referring to the Rules as the...

Report 14 December 2023

Overlooked: Why oil and gas decommissioning liabilities pose overlooked financial stability risk

The key message of this paper is that oil and gas decommissioning obligations amplify the potential harm from—and could be the spark that...

Oil & Gas Report 01 October 2020

Billion Dollar Orphans: Why millions of oil and gas wells could become wards of the state

There are 2.6 million unplugged onshore wells in the U.S., with another estimated 1.2 million that are undocumented. In It’s Closing...

Curb Your Enthusiasm: Bridging the gap between the UK’s CCUS targets and reality

We carry out scenario analysis and research to examine and understand how potential changes to supply and...

Loading the DICE Against Pensions

We carry out scenario analysis and research to examine and understand how potential changes to supply and...

It’s Closing Time: The Huge Bill to Abandon Oilfields Comes Early

Oil & Gas Report June 2020

Carbon Tracker pioneered work on the oil and gas industry’s “stranded assets”; as investors increasingly ask whether oil...

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